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(Fair Grove, Missouri)
Market Ends for The 2008 Season
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The 32nd Annual Fair Grove Heritage Reunion is coming up September 26 & 27 in Fair Grove, Missouri. The event features over 300 arts, crafts, food and fund raising booths, a hometown parade on Saturday morning and church service on Sunday. Other activities held throughout the weekend include dancing, country music, period entertainment from the 1800’s, horse and mule obstacle course demonstrations, antique small engines, tractors, threshing and lots of other family friendly activities.
The Fair Grove Farmers' Market will have Booths at The Heritage Reunion.
Our market has 7 Vendors that will be representing the Fair Grove Farmers' Market and the Agri Mo, at the Heritage Reunion, This will be our 6Th year.
Jim and Cc Gulick of The Berry Patch , Jim and CC own and operate The Berry Patch from Bolivar, Mo. They raise all there own Berry's to make there jams and jellies, all pesticide free.They will be there with all the Jams and Jellies and salsa .CC makes home made baked pies and sells them at The Market also. Jim and Cc have been Market members for 10 years. http://www.jandc-theberrypatch.com
Jack and Janet Brooks of Fair Grove with there Local Honey.Jack has 60 bee hives and 3 nuc's and has been a member of the Fair Grove Farmers Market for 10 years, Jack also sells his honey with or with out combs and also has the combs separate for sale. Before there was a market Jack would sit along the Highway and sell his produce. And Lynn Oatman with all of her baked whole grain breads and sticky buns and lots goodies. http://www.lynnsbread.com
Richard Srch with a trailer with produce. pumpkins and beautiful mums.
Richard has been a market member for 9 years. Alot of people last year took pictures of there kids on the trailer with all the mums and pumpkins.
Debra VanBenthusen with her homemade cinnamon jelly,Cinnamon jelly is made with sugar or splenda, gourd bird houses , pumpkin bread, zucchini bread and cucumber bread, and a Pork Chop Rub, this is a old dutch recipe that has been in the Vanbenthusen Family for generations.
Our Vendors take great pride in representing The Fair Grove Farmers' Market, and the Agri MO. We will be able to accept EBT cards as well as debit.
Our Market won 2ND place for Farmer Market of the Year award for the whole State of Mo, and we also won Best event for our Kids Club and best marketing award. We are very Proud of our Community and the support, and Thankful for the Historical Society for letting us set up every week at the Pavilion.
We will also have Agri Mo canvas shopping bags for sale for $5.00. All the proceeds from the sale of these bags goes to a market account, We just purchased a must needed, diaper changing station from the sales of these shopping bags. This will be in the women's restroom at the Pavilion.
and also Mylisa Pryer with her Crafts.
please visit our blog or website http://fairgrovefarmersmarket.blogspot.com or www.fairgrovefarmersmarkt.com
So be sure and Visit our Booth's
Posted by Debra
@ 07:32 AM CDT
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July 29TH we will be Celebrating our Markets 10TH Year.
The Fair Grove Booster Band will be having there 1st annual fundraiser at The Market that day also. If it is a success, I was told they will do it yearly.
They will be husking and cooking fresh corn on the Cob. You can buy a Fresh cooked Ear of corn and help support your local school band. This helps pay for there traveling expense's along with all there other activities. Our Market will be having a drawing every hour for a Agri Mo Canvas Shopping Bag that day also. We will have other activities going on.
So please be sure and bring your family and friends to the Market, and enjoy the bounty of eating healthy fresh produce.
Hope to See you there
Posted by Debra
@ 09:05 AM CDT
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?Successful farmers’ markets don’t just happen in the larger metropolitan areas on Saturdays, but they are also nestled in the foothills of the Ozarks. Fair Grove, MO, just 15 miles north of a major metro area-Springfield, has a small but mighty farmers’ market each Wednesday. Fair Grove’s Farmers’ Market won the Second Place Award in the 2009 Farmers’ Market of the Year, sponsored by AgriMissouri™ and the Missouri Farmers’ Market Association.
The Fair Grove Farmers’ Market is located under a pavilion at the Historic Wommack Mill in downtown Fair Grove. With a population of 1,100 and over 30 farmers/vendors participating throughout the season, the market is the community hub on Wednesdays from 3:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m… April 22nd thru October 7th 2009.
The Market has become a great place for community groups to raise funds for their cause. The Market setting is unique in that it has a certified kitchen on the grounds, allowing the Market to offer prepared foods. Gary with Hilltop Pizza runs the Market Cafe. He uses as many products from the farmers’ market as possible.
Or maybe it is the Award Winning Growing with Kids Club that makes this market so different. All
Kids that sign up get a free plant or seeds to grow there own garden and get free advice from 2 master gardeners. This all free to the Kids.
Our Market has a lot to offer and it is worth the drive.
Posted by Debra
@ 08:15 AM CDT
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Jonathan Dowell is the 2007 Southern Regional Mountain Dulcimer Champion
Jonathen will be performing at the Fair Grove Farmers' Market opening day. April 22ND
Jonathan once lived in the Ozark Mountains of Southwest Missouri. His grandfather was a fiddle player, himself a descendent of Scots-Irish settlers who had homesteaded in the hills of Taney County. Jonathan took this heritage, added studies of music at Southwest Missouri State University, and developed skills in the modern style of the Mountain Dulcimer.
Jonathan learned dulcimer techniques from a long list of gifted teachers. First among these is his mother, Josephine Dowell, who brought the dulcimer to the Dowell family as she attended the Dulcimer Jamborees at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas. Other influential instructors have included Aubrey Atwater, Scott Odena, Karen Mueller, Dana Hamilton, Judy Klinkhammer, Pam Kirby, David Moran, Dennis Moran, and two giants of dulcimer history: David Schnaufer and Jean Jennings. Among the non-dulcimer influences are Erin Leahy and all her brothers and sisters, Dave Smith, J.C. Bonds, Beki Jeanne Fuller, Kathy Sutterfield, and all the girls of the Patchwork string band.
We will also have cookies and lemon aide for the customers
We will also be handing out trees to the Kids and signing them up for the Growing With Kids Program
Hope to See You There.
Posted by Debra
@ 08:07 AM CST
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The 2009 Season will begin on April 22ND 2009 and will go till October 7TH 2009
Fair Grove: Northern Greene County Farmers' Market held each Wednesday afternoon, from 3:30 to 7:00pm, just off Hwy. 65 in Fair Grove. Held under the Wommack Mill Pavilion, open rain or shine. This is the 10th Year.
Our Market accepts EBT (Stomp) and Debit Cards.
When you come to our Market you will find a wide variety of produce and baked items. You will also find a wide variety of Jams and Jellies and Salsa from the Berry Patch. And you will also find the State Fair 1st Place winner of Sheep’s cheese and smudge(fudge), and sheep’s lotion and soaps. You can find the vendors websites by going to the vendors listings. And also there e mail address and you can e mail them with your order before the Market. Some of the Vendors are open all season long. The Berry Patch, Lynn’s Breads, Stony Acers(Sheep lotions, soaps, Smudge),and Sandra with her Awake Energy Bullets.
We have 21 vendors signed up. And 1 Youth (Alex)(11 years old) that will be selling his produce that he is growing on his own. Alex has been a member of the Growing with Kids for 3 years. His family our regulars at our Market every week. We are proud of the fact he wants to Join our Market. Alex took first place with his Purple Beans last year at the Fair.
Our Market will have the Growing with Kids program again this year. This will be the 4Th year. All kids that sign up will get a free plant or seeds to grow there own garden, we have 2 Master Gardner’s there to hand them out and to give advice. This is all free to all Kids. And when you sign, put your e mail address and get a weekly update from me personally what plants or seeds you will be getting. This year we are going to try and Save the Bee's by planting flowering Tree's that the Mo Dept of conservation has donated, and also We will be planting large sunflower seeds, and all sorts of blooming plants to help the Bee population.
Any Child that wants to set up at our Market can do so to sell there produce that they grow themselves. They can set up and sell for free. Parents must be with the child at the market while they are selling. Please contact me
We are looking for a RECORD BREAKING Crowd This season and we will have lots of produce to choice from. There will be plenty for everyone. Please Check out our website for updated produce information that will be at the Market.
WWW.FairGroveFarmersMarket.com
Thanks Deb
Posted by Debra
@ 08:18 AM CST
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The Fair Grove 2009 Market Meeting will be Feb 7th at 10am at the Hilltop Pizza on main street in Fair Grove. Starting date will be decided at the Meeting.
If you are interested in becoming a member of our Growing Market please attend this meeting to get all the details.
Fair Grove: Northern Greene County Farmers' Market held each Wednesday afternoon, from 3:30 to 7:00pm, just off Hwy. 65 in Fair Grove. Held under the Wommack Mill Pavilion, open rain or shine. This is the 10th Year.
Our Market will have the Growing with Kids program again this year. This will be the 3rd year. All kids that sign up will get a free plant or seeds to grow there own garden, we have 2 Master Gardners there to hand them out and to give advice. This is all free to all Kids. And when you sign, put your e mail address and get a weekly update from me personally what plants or seeds you will be getting.
Any Child that wants to set up at our Market can do so to sell there produce that they grow themselfs. They can set up and sell for free. Parents must be with the child at the market while they are selling. So please if you want to set up at our Market please attend the meeting.
Thanks Deb
Posted by Debra
@ 07:25 AM CST
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Posted by Debra
@ 06:49 AM CST
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The Fair Grove Farmers’ Market Started out Great.
We had the Growing With Kids Club for the 2nd year.
The first week we handed out to the kids Trees that was donated by the Mo Dept of Forestry, and water containers, gloves, and hand tools to the kids, that the market purchased.
We had over 250 kids signed up from all over, I would E mail them every week to keep them all updated. And I still e mail them and will do so through out the winter.
Then every week Mr. & Mrs. Dowell would hand out plants and seeds and give them advise on how to raise there own garden. Mr. & Mrs. Dowell are Master Gardner’s and would donate there time and energy to our Market, and to the Kids.
We handed out over 250 trees that was donated by The Mo Dept. of conservation, the first 2weeks of the Market.
And than the week before Mothers day Pam with bunches of happiness donated 75 lilies for the kids to take home and plant with there mother for a mothers day gift.
And then on June 4th the Kids all received a Free Hot dog and chips from our Market Café.
And then I got over 200 coloring activity books from Mo on agriculture, and we had a coloring contest.
They were all winners. I had a gift certificate from 2 restaurants, and we had lots of stuffed animals and they would draw for there prize.
Shane Schoeller our 139Th state Represenative sent me 150 packets on The State Of Mo, The Kids loved these.
Our local Business’s donated potato seed starts and seeds.
Our Kids are very important to our Market they are the Future Farmers.
We had a record breaking amount of Vendors this year.
And then we bought some Cloth Agri Mo shopping bags, and each time a customer bought something from a vendor they would get a ticket and put there name and phone no on it for a weekly drawing to win a shopping bag.
Customers loved this. We did this for four weeks.
We also had weekly stories in the Buffalo reflex newspaper.
I was interviewed on Kolr 10 a local T.V. Station about our Market. I was there at 6 am for a live interview.
We also got our own website this year: www.FairGroveFarmersMarket.com.
I keep the web site updated with news pictures and happenings about our Market.
I also keep updated Ozarks first.com which is a local TV. station with a community calendar.
1 of our newest vendors said he learned a lot from our Market and plans on being back next year, He seen what the customers are wanting and what he needs to grow and produce per the customers needs.
And than we had Fox 27 come out and do a live interview with our Vendors.
Jack brooks our local honey man brought a live bee observatory to the Market which was a big hit. It showed the bee’s working.
And then we had Cody Smith from the Mo dept of forestry, come and do a live demostration on how to properly trim and prune trees.
Our Market is very proud and was very Glad to receive the EBT and Debit card machine. It has really helped our Market.
We also offer Gift Certificates for our market.
And than in September we bought a big container of animal crackers and had a contest and let the Kids Guess how many was in the Jar, there prize the Jar of animal crackers.
We also have a paint your own Gourd and Pumpkin day, were the kids sign up and then they get to paint there own gourd or pumpkin that is Oct 1st at the Market. We supplied all the pumpkins and gourds and paints ect.. This is my 5th year and the kids always look forward to this event.
Please be sure and check out our website for information on The Berry Patch open house and Custommer Appreciation Days
Posted by Debra
@ 06:46 AM CDT
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